One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

by Ellis Peters

A dark figure, visible rather as movement than matter in a moonless night,

life could only be sustained by refusing to let it be disrupted, by war, catastrophe or death.

In such dreadful times as these no one can do more than choose his own road according to his conscience, and bear the consequences of his choice, whatever they may be.”